Name: Penny Siopis
Areas of Work: Artist
Website: www.stevenson.info/artists/siopis.html

Penny Siopis is a South African of Greek descent. She lives in Cape Town where she is an Honorary Professor at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.

Siopis works in painting, film/video, photography and installation. Her work since the 1970s has covered different foci but her interest in what she calls the ‘poetics of vulnerability’ characterises all her explorations, from her earlier engagements with history, memory and migration to her more recent concerns with shame, violence and sexuality.

She has exhibited widely, in South Africa and internationally, and has taken part in the biennales of Sydney, Johannesburg, Guangzhou, Havana and Venice.